Danai Kriki (b. 1992) lives and works in Athens. She is a graduate of the Fine Arts Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts and is currently a postgraduate student at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens. Her practice explores the design and poetic dynamics of everyday language, and the way in which these can create affective environments. Within these affective worlds, she maps contemporary everyday life as a present in constant crisis, where the subject becomes attached to post-war narratives and collective fantasies of a “good life”. By focusing on the production of unfulfilled desires as they unfold in the realm of love —desire for love, for excitement, for intimacy that lasts, for security— and the gendered implications of the resulting correlations, she seeks to capture the complexities of the social and cultural reproduction of millennials. She has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship by ARTWORKS (2022).